CHILDREN at Witney’s Batt School wrapped up warm to learn about the shapes that ice makes yesterday.

Pupils went on a winter walk around the school grounds, keeping an eye out for frozen spiders’ webs.

Temperatures dropped to well below freezing throughout Oxfordshire on Tuesday night and wintry scenes took over as freezing fog engulfed the county.

The coldest temperatures were recorded in South Newington, where it was -7.9C on Tuesday night, while RAF Benson dropped to -6.1C.

It wasn’t quite the coldest place to be in the country though – Little Rissington in Gloucestershire, just across the county boundary north of Burford, was the coldest in England at -8.3C, while Braemar in the Scottish Highlands was the coldest in the UK at -11.3C.